London: William Heinemann, 1930. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), viii, 72 pages. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, number 64 of 75 numbered copies, signed by both authors. Marcel Boulestin was a French chef, restaurateur and author of cookbooks that popularized French cuisine in the English-speaking world. His London restaurant, the Restaurant Français, opened in 1927, and was known at the time as the most expensive in the city. In publisher’s.....
[New York]: Castoria, Centaur Liniment, Dr. Wei De Meyer, [1883]. Duedecimo (15.25 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Advertisements. Various small illustrations throughout. Product cookbook promoting Centaur's Castoria and Dr. Wei de Meyer's Catarrh Cure, with recipes "adapted from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York". With testimonials, including one from P.T. Barnum. Some light spotting within. In red- and black-illustrated wrappers depicting "The Diver" with a small cord for hanging. Tiny.....
London: Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, 1884. [Cover title: Francatelli's Cook's Guide]. Thick octavo (17.5 x 13 cm.), xx, 524 pages. Frontispiece; illustrated in the text. Index. Glossary. Bills of Fare for each month. Stated "fifty-fifth thousand"; originally issued by the same publisher in London, 1861. Charles Elmé Francatelli (1805-1876) was "Pupil to the celebrated Careme, and Chief Cook to Her Majesty, Victoria, Queen of England". A distinct.....
Philadelphia: Evans, Stoddart & Co., 1870. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 454, [4] pages. Table of contents; index. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes gathered from the pages of the popular periodical, Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830-1878), which had been the largest circulation of any periodical in America prior to the Civil War. The editor of the periodical at the time of this publication was Sarah Josepha.....
Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....
Chartres: Editions de la Tournelle, S. d., c. 1930. Octavo (23 x 16.5 cm.), 127 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text by V. Le Campion. Offered by the Laboratories of Dr. Zizine. FIRST EDITION. Prosper Montagné, author of Le Grand Livre De Cuisine, and co-author of the monumental Larousse Gastronomique, revises (and we take this to mean compiles) this compilation of Mediterranean recipes supplied by more than seventy French.....
[Gloucester]: Procter Brothers, Publishers, 1882. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 274, [38] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. ~ FIRST EDITION. An omnibus of information about the American seafood industry in the final decades of the 19th century, covering the fishermen and fishing industry of Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Ann. The book contains lists of vessels operating; explains the value (economic, but also health-wise) of various types of seafood; tell.....
Indianapolis; New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1939]. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), x, 210 pages. Illustrated. Evident FIRST EDITION. The second book of the author of the landmark American cookbook, The Joy of Cooking. This second effort met with, at best, a lukewarm reception. Rombauer addresses the homemaker in a rush, and tries to help her use more canned and other quick foods. The acknowledgments include home economists from Proctor.....
late 1500s. Engraving, (23.5 x 29.5 cm. image dimensions). Signed in lower part of impression, "Bassan. inuet. loa. Sadeler sc." and CU. priuil. S. Caes. M." and ex S. Lvc. xvi. cap." Lacking the legend below the image. One of Sadeler's three "Kitchen" scenes, this one with Lazaraus seen from behind at right with two dogs,, seated and looking at a dinner table with the rich man, a kitchen with.....
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[Rochester, N.Y. H.H. Warner & Co., circa 1886]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (22.75 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Publication date from the latest testimonials. FIRST EDITION. A promotional book for patent medicine from H.H. Warner & Co., with the usual assortment of medicinal recommendations, glowing testimonials, household and culinary recipes, and advertisements. Also mentioned is Warner's Safe Cook-Book, "the most valuable family recipes ever published." Lightest discoloration to.....